Steve Horner hopes to win big against ladies' night in Las Vegas

Steve Horner might have finally hit the jackpot in his fight against ladies' night.

Long a crusader against the drink special -- he argues it amounts to discrimination against men -- Horner wired his Yankee's hat for sound and busted up some Las Vegas "pool parties" last summer. To Horner's surprise, the Nevada Equal Rights Commission thinks he might have a case, and will facilitate mediation with several casinos later this month.

It's a big score for justice, says Horner. "Nevada and Las Vegas are the mother lode of ladies' night."

Horner has been fighting to criminalize ladies' night for more than 20 years, ever since Gator's Bar in Mall of America wouldn't let him in without paying a cover. As he explained it to us last fall:

"I've had my crosses in life too, gals! For you to preach equality to me for 35 frickin' feminist years, but yet want free drinks when it's tits up at the bar time, I'm saying foul. You've got to take the salt with the sugar, sweetie. You're not going to deny me of my equal rights."

A Minnesota native, Horner is also the brother of Tom Horner, who ran for governor last election on the Independence Party ticket. He's had some success against ladies' night over the years, but his relentlessness has also led to him being thrown in jail.

Last summer, Horner traveled from his home in St. George, Utah, to Las Vegas with the intention of recording some bartenders refusing to give him the same discounts they give women.

"I asked for the door manager, and I did exactly what the Nevada Equal Rights Commission said for me to do," says Horner. "Find out the discrepancy in price, and then ask that door manager if he or she would let me in for the same price for women. And of course it was always, 'Ha ha ha, you idiot, get lost.'"

In April, he found "six fat envelopes" in his mail box. The Equal Rights Commission was inviting Horner to participate in mediation, ruling that "probable cause supports the charge that Respondent's practice of charging men more than women is discriminatory under NRS chapter 233," according to a letter from the commission provided by Horner.

"They found that my rights have been violated, no different than the Jew at the Catholic bar," says Horner.

Mediation sessions are set to begin Wednesday, though it sounds like at least four of the casinos have already declined to participate. Horner wouldn't say exactly how much he hopes to get, but says he originally asked for $2,000 in punitive damages in addition to real damages -- gas, the price difference between men and women -- from each. "I can say I bumped it up a little bit," he says.

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To the person known as "Moron"(brilliant name), you're wrong when you suggest that I hope my phone messages will never see the light of day; I'm hoping every one of those messages I've ever left for Marxist-styled legislators, newspaper employees, and other liberal,public-policy influence peddlers are hung out on the line for public inspection and scrutiny. You see, Moron, I'm not one of those cowards you're familiar with who strike anonymously with their opinions in the dead of night through the privacy veil of the internet. I'm open, forthright, and passionate about my causes and listen up Moron, if the truth hurts, and it sounds like it does, take my advice and do what I tell all the other women who can't take the heat of public scrutiny: get back to the kitchen and bake cookies. It'll be a lot more peaceful for you. Steve Horner

What is really funny is that Steve Horner is actually one of the most racist biggots there is. He crusades for equal rights yet he leaves Neo-Nazi rants on phone messages that he thinks will never see the light of day. Just wait Steve...Just wait.

Frankly, and after reading the most recent comments, I've seen it coming for a long time: society has become really super stupid, cowardly, and weaselly, and if shutting down ladies'nights pisses off these people, and I've known from the beginning that it does,then that makes my day. To see how we got here and where we're heading, read my novel: The Frank White Man's Revolution at stevehornerbooks.com. And, for you idiot parents whose children are suffering because of your ignorance, read my parenting book also at stevehornerbooks.com.Thanks. Steve Horner

If my brother, Tom Horner, decides to run for Minnesota governor again, I hope he decides to make lemonade out of our brotherly affiliation. After all, just take a look at all the dust my ladies'night battle stirs up; it's confusion and anger stirred up by the misunderstanding of the ingredients of civil rights. I'm looked at by many as weird simply because I'm asking women to walk the walk of what they've been saying for the last 40 years in the name of equality. Yet, when it's tits-at-the-bar time then favor-granting seems to be in order for them: phonies! Same as the guys who profess equality out of one side of their liberal mouths, but speak of getting women drunk at ladies'night to get lucky out of the other: losers! Don't you get it, yet? The Constitution says what Martin Luther King was yelling about:"Equal Protection Under the Law!" It speaks of consistency in law enforcement. Hell, I'm the one with the Purple Heart; I'm the one who deserves favors, not the bar flies. All one needs to do is go back through history: to the Jews, the blacks, homosexuals, etc., and see that they were(and are)denied their equal protection under the law(civil rights)because somebody else was capitalizing on it. And I believe that's a much-needed conversation which would help garner a few extra votes for my brother Tom if he ever decides to run again. Steve Horner

Geeze, if you don't like it don't go there! Where has the right to choose gone? Does he not have any respect for himself? He can not choose for himself so he wants the Government to choose for everyone. That goes for everything. If two dudes or chicks wanna get married who's business is that??? If you don't like it look away. Choose for yourselves people. America is truly becoming a Police State.

Just cause you cannot get laid without roofies does not mean you should ruin for everyone else. There are much more egregious civil rights violations and you choose this lunatic issue. Why not fight for those who executed because they were denied a fair trial or something.

I don't care about ladies night. I have never participated in one and don't care to because that's not my scene. If this is the cause that makes you feel you are bridging some sort of equality gap between the sexes, than more power to you.

Real change will have happened when there are no more ladies nights because we are viewed as equals and not as a marketing tool, not when you get free drinks.